DEMS/HOLIDAY/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi just bought a little more time. The California Democrat sent lawmakers out the door Thursday for a 10-day Memorial Day break after tamping down swelling demands from House Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. But with Trump intent on defying Democrats on every investigative front, many lawmakers in the party’s growing pro-impeachment wing say the detente won’t last…Pelosi and her top deputies are hoping to run out the clock on impeachment, preferring to beat Trump at the ballot box, lawmakers and aides say privately. The closer the calendar drifts toward 2020, the less appetite they think there will be to opening impeachment proceedings, which are sure to fail in the GOP-controlled Senate and which senior Democrats fear could imperil their chances of holding onto the House next year.”
–Heather Caygle and Sarah Ferris, “‘We’re not at that place’: Pelosi gets breathing room on impeachment,” Politico, May 23, 2019 6:25 pm